This is a guest by Typhoon a.k.a Sushant Risodkar from SmartBloggerz.
Getting published is one of the most difficult challenges a writer faces when pursuing his calling, his profession. Writers often have other sources of income because depending solely on their chosen career might end them up penniless, no matter how good they are.
Fortunately for the multitudes of writers and writers-to-be out there, the World Wide Web has brought to light a few options they can take that lead to both growth as a writer and income as a worker. One of these options is called Search Engine Optimization or simply SEO.
SEO refers to how web content is optimized such that the website that harbors the optimized content gets higher rankings from...
Ever Google yourself? [Don't worry, we all do it.] Ever notice how your results might be vastly different from someone sitting right next to you?
There are a ton of factors that Google incorporates to make your search results the best they can be - and they all amount to a little thing called personalized search. Personalized search incorporates:
Web history
Personalized results
Recent searches
Universal search
Geographic location (Local Results)
Starred results
Social search
Real time search
Personalized...
Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, recently said, “We have over 200 signals in our scoring to try to return the most relevant, the most useful, the most accurate search results that we can find.”
Google constantly changes its algo to provide info that’s relevant and useful to users, as quickly as possible. What ranked well last year might not rank so well this year. As they put it ...
Many of you know that I am heavily into various SEO, social media and productivity tools. Therefore I often get requests from people to point them to various tools based on their needs. Someone once asked me about a tool that could generate the list of domains for several related search queries. I wasn't aware of a standalone tool like that, so I decided to develop it. The utility I have come up...
If you are a business dependent upon the local consumer for your revenue, then local business listings at multiple local listing websites is an important local business marketing tool for you. A few important tips.
1. Claim Your Local Listing
By claiming your listing you are effectively protecting your listing from hijackings and also allow you to use your local business listing as a marketing tool. Don't wait to do this....run!
*This is a guest tip by Caliban who can typically be found at his Mobile SEO blog*
The Problem
So you’ve just created the most amazing link bait for your site, pat yourself on your back...but you’re not done just yet. Promoting your content is the next step to make sure you generate the traffic and links to your site you want. Twitter is a great tool for getting your message...
*This is a guest tip by Kevin Kaiser.*
What’s better than doing quality SEO and building your brand at the same time? When people start searching your brand name, you know you’re doing something right and that’s normally a good sign. But when you search your brand name, do other suggestions come up?
Slowly type your brand name or some other big keyword that seems to bring you traffic and see what else Google suggests. Go...
*This is a guest post by Monica*
Are you planning to invest in SEO services for your company? You might have realized by now that finding a SEO company is certainly not an easy task. Moreover, finding an efficient SEO company that meets your requirements and budget is certainly a difficult process.
Some SEO services are expensive whereas some services are unreliable and inefficient. Such inefficient services do not provide the desired results. However, you need to...
The following guest post was written by Anil Gupta from ScopeForMoney.com blog
Every blogger wishes to find his blog coming at the top rankings in various search engines when keywords related to that are entered. However, this cannot be achieved without doing anything. You need to acquire as much knowledge about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and use best SEO tools for promoting your blog. Here...
*This is a guest tip by by Peter Ulstrup Hansen.*
SEO consists of a mix of disciplines; link building, copy writing and code optimization just to name a few. At the base of these disciplines is indexing barrier identification and removal.
Indexing barriers are issues that prevent the search engines from crawling and indexing a website properly.
1. Use www.URIValet.com to check server headers and make sure...
